Imagine a woman who once deconstructed the feminist literary critique on Jane Eyre and who wrote her MA thesis on the androgynous concept of Virginia Woolf.
Imagine when her daughter, three months shy of being 8, says:
- You know how boys always know more than girls.
Not asking, but making a statement.
Car-crash, earthquake, anyone?
Or deadly silence.
- Do you think daddy knows more stuff than mummy?
- No.
As if it was a given.
- Well, there you go.
But it has started.
The inevitable decline of individual perception of self. I really have to do something.
I have to get to work.
4 comments:
Oh! Dear! Understand your reaction.
Some boys just like to think they know more. *sigh* I still know boys like that.
Meanwhile, on a similar note, I saw this video on Facebook recently (hopefully you can access it...) But when I saw it, I thought, anyone with a daughter will want to see this, to think about showing it to their daughter.
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=537650415&share_id=293595600643&fragment=share_footer293595600643&comments=&share_footer293595600643=#/video/video.php?v=1130618347958&ref=nf
Indie, thank you so much for the link, I have seen this before, and love it, in fact, am a huge fan of Doves advertising drive and what they try to do to change young women's perception of themselves. I forgot about the video, though, so will play this to my daughter tonight.
Her pet hate is her beautiful shirley temple curls.
She wants to look more like everyone else, she says.
Take care!!
I love the photo. And it's a beautiful match to the post.
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